Culture in Quarantine

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Between the Covers: 12 books for Summer

Read these brilliant books and you'll be set for the new series of book club banter with Sara Cox and guests

BBC Two

The new Virtual Reality game recreating the experience of OCD

Dichotomy aims to help players understand what it’s like to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

BBC NEW CREATIVES

Lights Up

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays.

Culture in Quarantine

Deaf Awareness Week

The Land and The Sea

An audiovisual poetry film showing the creative scope of Sign Language Poetry

BBC IPLAYER

Sign Night

Two deaf women separated by lockdown unite through sign language in poetic projection

BBC iPlayer

Sing: BSL SignSong

This Deaf Awareness Week you can join in the BSL SignSong to Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber's heart-warming track

BBC Ability

Inside Cinema

Nuns On Film

Pamela Hutchinson sings the praises of film's faithful sisters, from Black Narcissus to Sister Act and beyond

BBC IPlayer

Fat and Female on Film

Grace Barber-Plentie’s body-positive celebration of how being fat and female on film has evolved

BBC Iplayer

Strong Female Characters

Hanna Flint asks if a strong female character kicking ass is always empowering? Or is there still work to be done?

BBC Iplayer

Dancing Nation

Dancing Nation on BBC Four

Select performances and interviews, presented by Brenda Emmanus on Monday 10 May.

BBC Four

Blak Whyte Gray

Boy Blue bring one section of Blak Whyte Gray, the company's Olivier-Award nominated work.

Boy Blue

BLKDOG

A genre-defying, award-winning blend of hip-hop dance by Botis Seva.

Far From The Norm

Face In

Daring and uninhibited dance, a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination.

Candoco

Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus

Hope Hunt shatters facades, dismantles stereotypes and finds beauty on the periphery.

Oona Doherty

State of the Nation

Everything you need to know about our sampler of UK dance in all its forms.

BBC Arts

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Discover the South East's biggest festival

Explore over 90 events including Guest Director Lemn Sissay's new work on family

Brighton Festival

Captive to celebrity

The remarkable life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta and her inspiration on contemporary artists

ART UK

Stories from Pitt Rivers Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share anecdotes and insight about their favourite objects from the museum's extensive collection

Art Fund UK

BBC Introducing Arts

Women in Film

Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing short films by emerging female directors and storytellers

BBC IPLAYER

Creating a Scene

Chizzy Akudolu presents a new collection of dramatic short films from BBC Introducing Arts

BBC IPLAYER

Get Animated!

Plunge into exciting, strange and beautiful animated worlds

BBC iPlayer

Inside Games

Special Characters

What makes a great video games character? Elle Osili-Wood explores the history from Pac-Man to Lara Croft and beyond

BBC iPlayer

Black Hair in Games

Elle Osili-Wood asks, what makes a black video game character feel truly authentic?

BBC IPlayer

Wholesome games

The important role of games like Animal Crossing during times of social isolation

BBC IPLAYER

Get Creative at Home

Cynthia Erivo Masterclass

The Oscar-nominated actress gives a singing masterclass with the help of RADA student Daniel Bowerbank

Get Creative at Home

Top needlework tips from Get Creative

If you're feeling inspired by the return of The Great British Sewing Bee, here's some advice on getting started

GET CREATIVE

Clare Twomey

The artist demonstrates how anyone can create beautiful bowls with marizipan

BBC iPlayer

The Novels That Shaped Our World

10 remarkable novels about identity

Stories about what makes us who we are and how we define ourselves and others

Novels that shaped our world

10 passionate tales about love, sex and romance

Stories delving into affairs of the heart and the bedroom, including Forever and Riders

Novels that shaped our world

10 of the best adventure stories ever told

Stories of exploration, quest and survival including The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials

Novels that shaped our world

10 classic stories of life, death and other worlds

Novels tackling the struggle to live in alternative universes or imagined futures

Novels that shaped our world

10 astute novels that tell us about class and society

Stories examing how others live and how we live together, inlcuding Cannery Row and Our Mutual Friend

Novels that shaped our world

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

Explore the list of 100 novels whose stories have the power to change us

BBC Arts

New on BBC iPlayer

BBC Young Musician: Final

The exceptional musicians compete for the coveted title in the long-awaited grand final of BBC Young Musician 2020

BBC IPLAYER

All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star

In the workshop this week the jewellers compete to design a bold bib necklace for drag queen Amrou

BBC IPlayer

Make-up: A Glamorous History

Lisa Eldridge explores the hypocrisy and illusion the Victorians embraced in their attitude to make-up and inner purity

BBC IPlayer

New on BBC Sounds

Dancers at Dawn

Musican Martin Green explores the unlikely connections between Morris dancers and ravers

Radio 4

Tom Jones looks back at his life and career

In a Front Row extended interview the singer celebrates turning 80 and the release of a new album

Radio 4

Sheridan's Showstoppers

Sheridan speaks to Michelle Visage about her love of the music of Stephen Sondheim and songs from stage and screen

Radio 2

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